Protective check.



NL J ONES. PROTECTIVE GHE'Lf..

AVPPLIUATION FILED JULY so, 1908.

1,028,51, I PwtntdJune 1, M12.

DOLLARS l UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIcE.

EARLE M. JONES, OF XvIINNEAPOLIS, vIVIINNIIISO'I'A,,ASSIGNIR O F ONE-FIFTIETH T GILBERT-KVITRUD, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

'Pnorncrxvn CHECK.

My invention relates to means for protecting checks, drafts or money orders, to prevent their alteration and-to eliminate the use of machines of various kinds for marking or cutting the paper of which the checks or drafts is composed.

' A'further object is to provide al protective means that'is simple and efficient, and easily and expeditiously operated. `My invention 'consists generally in providing groups of characters onthe face of the check or draft'representing thevari'ous amounts for which the check or draft may be* drawn, said groups being disposed so that straight lines of severance may be 'drawn from the character 4representing' -nine hundred are printed.

hundreds in one Group, and `intersect the character represen ing the tens and units in the other groups.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, FigureV 1, is a face view of'a portion of 4a cheekl with my invention applied thereto. Fie. 2, is a similar vier.' illustrating the application of the invention to a money order.

In the drawing, 2 represents a check of4 ordinary type having atthe left hand end a vertical row of figures, 2 representing hundreds, all the charactersvv being multiples of one hundred. 'A similar row of gures 3 is provided beside the first row Vwith arrows intersecting them, pointing to the outer row or column and terminating with perforations 4 made in the paper between the rows or columns and opposite the characters. A score linel 5 is provided extending' transversely of the check between the vertical columns, and on one side of this line, numerals representing onev thousand and on the other side numerals representing In case the cheek is drawn for an even one thousand dollars, the' stripofl the; paperat the left of the linev 5- is torny oif, no further protection being necessarythanathe-printed amount of the checkt the top of the checkand angularly disposed withy respect to the vertical columns, is a group 6i representing tens Specification `of Letters Patent. -I

Application led July 30,

Patented June-1, 1912.

1908. Serial No. 446,058.

up to ninety dollars, arrows being provided, which intersect the numerals representmg tens and terminating with perforations 1n the paperv corresponding to those described.

.At the bottom of the check,y is Aa third group 7 also angularly disposed with respect to the vertical columns 2 and 3 and representing units from oneto nine. These numerals also havingarrows intersecting them with perorations in the paperat the termination of thearrow points.l If a check is drawn for an amount, say $435.00, the end ofthe cheek is torn along the line A B orbetween the perforations opposite the numerals 400 and 30.1 The lower corner-of the check is torn olf alongthe lineA- C or to the five dollar perforation. When this Vhas been done, the numeral four hundred willappeai in the apex of the-triangle termed at the end of the check, the thirty will appear at the upper edge of the check, andthe five at the lower edge so that th'eperson receiving the check or draft., can tell at a glance, theamount for which it was originally drawn, and whether it has been tampered with or not. The .paper is torn along straight lines at the top and bottom of the check and the amountfor which the check is drawn can be very easily and quickly indicated without the necessity of tearing irregular lines as is often required, particularly in express orders and without the use of a machine for perforating or impressing the amount .on the check.

In Fig. 2, I have illustrated the invention applied to a money order which is .frequently made out Vfor la fraction of a dollar. In this case, the groups of numerals are ar. ranged as described' with reference' to the check, except that I prefer tol provide the dollar characters above the middle line of the 4money order, and those representing cents, below the middlel linea 8` represents: a vvertical column .of numerals represent-ing ten dollars, to ninety dollarsonone side'- of. a

line of perforations 9j, and 101- a column of horizontal column Il. off words having arrows intersecting them and {ei-minating with perforations corresponding. to those described. Arabic -figures are also arranged;

horizontally along .the upper edge of the money order, opposite the arrows. The figindicating that the money order is drawn for the exa-ct sum of one hundred dollars. Below the middle line of the check, is a column of Arabic figures 12 representing cents and on the'other side a column 13 of printed "words also representing cents 'from ten to ninety. At the lower edge of the money order, is a group of numerals. 1K1 indicating units from one to ten and associated with a horizontal row of printed words 15 through which arrows pass terminating with perforations in the paper. Ablanl 16 is preferably provided near the middle of the money order, in which the amount for which the money order is drawn, is written. In issuing the order, the paper is torn, if drawn for the amount indicated in the figure, along the line D E intersecting the perforation at forty in the vertical row of printed words and three in the horizontal row at the top of the order. The paper is also torn on the line F G between the perforations opposite the word fifty in the vertical column. and5 in the lower horizontal column. The order it is drawn and cannot be.' altered without detection.

This invention may beutilized in the printing of money receipts of various kinds.

of such an application, necessary in this case.

I claim as my invention:

`I have not thought the illustration however A A check, money order, or similar instru- 40 which the' check is drawn being next to the 5 severed edge and -visible when the paper is torn across the corners between the perforations opposite the characters representlng the amount for which the instrument is drawn 1n said column and rows.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of July,1908.

EARLE M. JONES.

lVitnesses: i

RICHARD PAUL, J. A. BYINGTON. 

